Journalists are stuck between a rock and a hard place: they want their articles available for people to read, but they want them hidden behind a paywall because

Journalists are stuck between a rock and a hard place: they want their articles available for people to read, but they want them hidden behind a paywall because that's how they get paid. It reminds me a bit of the dilemma faced by authors of open source software. Collectively, developers have surrendered to the corporations, given up the GPL and given their work away for free. They don't worry about it because they can have a profitable sideline working for those same corporations, but journalists, writers and other artists don't have a lucrative fallback plan.